Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-04-29
A sad accident happened to a little

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son of w. r. Spears, of Moscow, on
| Wednesday morning. The boy, who is
only about five years old was playing
with sharp ak. and while carrying il
upon his shoulder stumbled and fell, the
ak striking his left wrist and severing
the hand from the arm. DR.. Hanson OF
Blanchardville was Immediately called
and bandaged the wounded arm, and
the poor little fellow is doing as well
as could be expected.
Herst Gam, of The Warren Oh. J
Sentinel recently acknowledged in his
paper that he caught nice lot of trout
near Gratiot, Wis, on the 14th, inst;
and now the Darlington Republican
and The Shullsburg Pick and Cad are
prosecuting brother Gam in news
paper way for violating the laws of
Wisconsin, which forbid the catching
of trout before April Is. 1t would
seem that The Sentinel man has no
fear of the laws of Wisconsin before
his eyes however well he may observe
those of Illinois.
Burglars carried on active and ex-
tensive operations at Platteville on
Friday night of last week. They en-
tered the ticket Office of the C. & n.
w. railway company, and several bust
ness houses. At McLean's jewelry
store the heaviest robbery was COM
mitted. They carried away many gold
and silver watches, and large stock
of gold rings chains, etc. Two sus-
picious characters were apprehended
at DodgeviIle for the robbery; but we
have not learned whether they were
identified or not.
The people of Shullsburg have been
stirred up by what has lately been said
in praise of the Darlington water and
have sent some water from one of their
deep mining levels to an eminent
chemist of Brooklyn, n. Y, who has an
alyzed it and declares that it possesses
fine medicinal qualities. Competition
will doubtless prove the life of the
mineral water business in Southwestern
Wisconsin. But the ultimate result
of the rivalry between our neighboring
towns down in Lafayette county, can
only be to attract attention to Mineral
Point, the fountain head, where water
pure cold and sparkling, and unexcelled
by any in the world, gushes out from
hundreds of springs, and flows east,
north, south and west. In the vicinity
of Mineral Point the best mineral
water can be obtained in abundance
without sinking shafts down into the
bowels of the earths
The talk about mineral water being
found at Darlington reminds The Dem
ocrat of Sam Carey's story in regard to
French wines consumed in America.
Mr.. Carey said that some very nice
friends of his expressed in his presence
a supreme contempt for such common
drinks as whiskey and beer, while they
loudly praised imported French wines.
So he told them the following story to
show them how their Gsthetic taste
was borne out by the facts in the case.
He said that while at one time travel
ing in France it was his pleasure to take
a "wine BATH" which he heard highly
recommended. He went to a place
where wine baths were. given, and was
conducted by an attendant to the top
story of many stored building, where
the bathing was performed. When
he came to pay for the bath the price
charged for the same seemed surpris-
ingly low considering the quantity of
wine required for the operation; and
he inquired how wine baths could be
furnished at SO low figure. He was
informed that he had paid the highest
price charged for a wine bath, and
that the wine used in bathing him
would be let down into the next story
below, where it would be used in giving
lower priced bath, and so on down
through the building the price descend
ing with the wine, until it reached
the lowest floor, when it would come
within the reach of the poorly paid
laborers of France" and them" said
the Frenchman who was furnishing the
information, eve bottle up the wine
and send it to America" If water
which drains from Mineral Point and
the hills around about is of so good a
quality when it reaches the bottom at
Darlington as to be recommended for
its purity, what must it be at the foun-
tain head?